This year, the Graphics Interchange Format turned 25. It's been quite a year for the humble GIF: voted Word of the Year by the Oxford University Press (which said the humble viral image format has "evolved from a medium for pop-cultural memes into a tool with serious applications including research and journalism"),…

Carmen Tisch, the 36-year-old Colorado woman who notably punched, scratched, and rubbed her butt against a $30-million Clyfford Styl painting in a Denver museum, has been sentenced to two years of probation and will have to undergo mental health treatment because the justice system does not understand performance art.…

But there is a pregnant bunny. Significantly less suggestive than the last cover of the oversized art/fashion glossy, which featured [link NSFW] a butterfly sticker that peeled off to reveal a Damien Hirst butterfly tattoo on the labia majora of a young London woman, but in that bunny's pregnant belly there is still…

There was a closing party for Ryan Trecartin's show "Any Ever" at the Museum of Modern Art's contemporary space, PS1, on Wednesday night, co-hosted by the museum and an online magazine called DIS. There was candy, and an open bar, and Trecartin's incredible video installations, which are about capitalism and market…

Pop magazine tapped Serbian-born performance artist Marina Abramović as a cover star for its latest issue. Abramović made and dressed up a doll to look like herself during "The Artist Is Present," her landmark 2010 Museum of Modern Art show. The artist posed with the doll herself for one cover, and had Danish model…

We just got an exclusive look at the cover of Dasha Zhukova's Garage magazine's debut issue. And there's a set of tattooed labia on it.

The "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art closed on Sunday having drawn over 650,000 visitors, and in the process, becoming one of the ten most popular shows in the museum's 141-year history. Measured in attendance, McQueen is now up there with Tutankhamun, the Mona Lisa, and…

A Japanese artist who goes by the name Sputniko! (punctuation included) has designed and built a machine that simulates the experience of menstruation, for use by those who don't spend a week dripping blood and uterine lining out of their genitals by dint of biology. The device includes electrodes to induce…

Cindy Sherman has a MAC collection coming out in September, and the just-released ads are pretty damn cool. Sherman last dallied with fashion when she did a series of self-portraits for Balenciaga last fall. [Racked]

Dutch video artists Lernert and Sander put foundation, eyeshadow, blush, and lipstick on Belgian model Hannelore Knuts' face. They did this three-hundred and sixty-five times. The whole thing took nine hours, three lipsticks, seven bottles of foundation, and two bottles each of cream blush and eyeshadow to achieve.…

For Christian Louboutin's latest lookbook, photographer Peter Lippmann used models to essentially recreate iconic works from art history: Whistler's Mother, Francisco de Zurbarán's St. Dorothy, and here, Jean-Marc Nattier's 1738 Portrait of the Marquise D'Antin. And added, you know, really expensive shoes. It's an old…

Marina Abramović was shot by photographer Beau Greely for i-D magazine, and Greely filmed this behind-the-scenes video. Ever since "The Artist Is Present" was mounted at MoMA last spring, the Marina Story has been a feature of certain casual conversations in New York City. People love to tell their Marina Stories,…

Diane von Furstenberg sat for a portrait with Chuck Close six weeks after a skiing accident left her with a broken nose and fractured bones in her face. "I gave up on my looks a long time ago," says the designer. In fact, she wishes Close could have taken this color Polaroid closer to her accident. "I should have come…

"The club, it's like a whole 'nother world," says Ronnie, the founder of Shakedown, an underground Los Angeles striptease dance party run by and for black lesbians. Director Leilah Weinraub has spent eight years filming Shakedown and its key players.

What we know of the story of Vivian Maier's life and work, and of how 30,000 of her negatives came to be acquired at a Chicago estate auction by a 26-year-old real estate agent and amateur historian, is breathtaking.

Those who don't know Serbian are encouraged to read this profile of the performance artist (or this and this, if you're too cheap to subscribe to The New Yorker), while looking at the very pretty picture with the lipstick.

Danish model Freja Beha Erichsen's reign over the summer and fall covers continues. For its fall issue, Dossier got photographer Cass Bird to take Erichsen's portrait in Woodstock, New York. Interestingly, Bird and Erichsen are both queer.

On why she wants to art-direct a fashion show. [FT]

Klaus Biesenbach, the curator of Marina Abramović's retrospective show, said last week, "You know, she can't see anyone without her glasses." So could the artist actually see any of the 1,545 people who sat opposite her in MoMA's atrium?